Created by mother daughter book club view on mother daughter. She and her family and friends were living in a town called sarajevo. Christina moore zlata filipovic began her diary before her eleventh birthday in 1991 while there was still peace in her home town of sarajevo. Peace still reigned in her hometown of sarajevo, where she lived the carefree life of an innocent schoolgirl. Anonymous, translated by cedar paul 1880 1972 the diary of an. Zlata is a young 11 year old girl living in sarajevo with her family in the year 1991. Zlatas diary consists of firsthand entries of zlatas daily life beginning in 1991, when her life was mostly normal and peaceful. She was an ordinary, if unusually intelligent and articulate little girl, and her preoccupations include whether.
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